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TROY, N.Y. - Four Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) student-athletes have earned recognition by being selected to the 2013 Capital One Academic All-District Men's and Women's At-Large Teams. Nick Bailen, Christopher Hall, David Hey and Erin Pomerantz have each earned First Team honors and are now eligible for Academic All-America consideration. Bailen was chosen in Division I while the other three were Division III selections.

Bailen (Fredonia, NY / Indiana Ice), a senior, had a team-high 31 points on a team-best 12 goals and 19 assists in 35 games. He was chosen to the All-ECAC Hockey First Team, named a CCM Hockey National All-America East First Team and chosen to the All-USCHO Second Team. He was also the team's Most Valuable Player and the Scholar-Athlete of the Year. In 149 career games, Bailen had 33 goals and 72 assists for 105 points, becoming just the fourth Engineers blueliner to eclipse the 100-point plateau.

The dual major in Business and Management and Economics has a cumulative grade point average of 3.88. A Capital One National Academic All-America Third Team choice as a junior, he had an internship with LeverPoint Management, a boutique fund administration firm, working with the private equity and treasury departments on a variety of projects. He has also worked in Rensselaer's Financial Aid Office, helping create files and gathering a variety of information. Bailen has been on the Dean's List multiple times and has been an ECAC Hockey All-Academic honoree on multiple ocassions. He is also a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society.

A two-year captain, Hall (Villanova, PA / Friends' Central) has a 3.99 cumulative GPA while working on both his undergraduate and graduate degrees in electrical engineering. He was recently awarded the Ballesian Prize, which is presented to the senior student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade point average. He has also earned the Trevett Award for "outstanding scholarship in electrical and systems engineering”. Hall has done internships with Boeing and Lutron Electronics and was an NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates Fellow. He was inducted into numerous honors societies, including Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu and Alpha Epsilon Lambda.

This season in the pool, Hall swims the breaststroke. He had three top 10 finishes at the New York State Meet and four top 10s in the Liberty League Meet. He also had five wins, four runner-ups and two third place finishes in non-championship meets.

Hey (Raleigh, NC / Durham Academy) is a midfielder on the lacrosse team who had 16 points on 11 goals and five assists in 13 games. The senior industrial management engineering major with a 3.84 grade point average was four-year member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.

During his time at Rensselaer, Hey interned as an IT business analyst at Credit Suisse and in performance services at Duke Health Raleigh Hospital. He also interned with the Great Atlantic Lacrosse Company. This spring he was inducted into two prestigious on-campus honor societies, Phalanx Leadership and Olympia Student-Athlete. Like Hall, he is also a member of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.

Pomerantz (West Nyack, NY / Clarkstown South) is a junior who will graduate a year early with a 3.95 GPA in mathematics with minors in economics and psychology. She has gained experience serving as an actuarial analyst intern at Aon Hewitt and she attended JP Morgan's Winning Woman Trading Experience. She will intern with Goldman Sachs Sales & Trading this summer before attending MIT Sloan's Master in Finance. She has conducted research examining the evolution of the Black Scholes options pricing model and is a member of Pi Mu Epsilon, Math Honor Society. 

On the field Pomerantz played in 13 games for the nationally-ranked Engineers lacrosse team, which had a 16-4 record and played in the NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals. This season she doubled her previous career in goals, scoring six times, while also earning an assist for seven points. She also had eight ground balls for Rensselaer, which set the school record for wins (16) and also played in the NCAA Tournament during her sophomore season. Pomerantz was the team's Most Improved Player during her freshman year.